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Performance Engineering Podcast

charlie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:42:50 +0000

Software Engineering Radio has a podcast on Performance Engineering. In this episode Martin talks with Chris Grindstaff about the fundamentals of performance engineering. The episode discusses when and how to work on performance of client- and server-side systems, what you should take into account during development to avoid performance issues, typical situations that cause [...]

Solaris Performance Primer: Introduction

stefanschneider — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:38:17 +0000

This web log will is the start of a small series of Solaris performance monitoring tools. We are going to present freely available tools from Solaris, the Tools CD and the DTrace toolkit.This blog will help the upatient ones who want to solve 90% of th...

20 New Rules for Faster Web Pages

Todd Hoff — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:31:01 +0000

Update: Nice explanation in The importance of bandwidth versus latency of how long latencies cause cascading delays in resource loading. Doloto tries to optimize how resources are loaded.

Twenty new rules have been added to the original 14 rules for sizzling web performance. Part of scalability is worrying about performance too. The front-end is where 80-90% of end-user response time is spent and following these best practices improved the performance of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. The rules are divided into server, content, cookie, JavaScript, CSS, images, and mobile categories. The new rules are: